Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-08-13
GENERAL NEWS.

Timothy Healy's suspension from parlia-
ment viii last fortnight.
Senator AIison's terse comment upon the
Sherman Endorsement by the Toledo con-
vention is that sherman wanted it, and he
1 got H."
The surplus in the treasury, according to
| the new form of statement, is now $4,000
/ 900, an increase Of nearly 100000 in the
| past thirty days. Treasury receipts now ay-
erage over 100000 day.
The prolonged drouth in various sections
of Illinois and Indiana is playing sad havoc
with the corn and grass crops.
Won Mems. of Rotterdam, won the first
prize in the Geneva rifle contest.
An examination of the books and accounts
of Ge lrgs w. Evans, financial and disburs-
ing officer Of the interior department, shows
them correct to a cent. In the financial op-
eratlons of this Office aggregating -9O,OOO,
COO during the last twenty years. the -1eru-
meut has never lost penny.
In their weekly trade review, R. G. Dunn
Co. say that the usual midsummer dull
ness IN general business has been aggravat-
ed by a variety of causes. Foreign com
merce Is still unsatisfactory, and the dO.ues-
TIC movement IN merchandise is sluggish.
1 ever prices delay the marketing of wheat
md hay. Corn and some minor crops are
yet an unknown quantity. Money is only
IN fair demand, with rates practically un-
changed, and collections fair. Business
failures in the United States and Canada
during the last seven days number 1874, as
against 1872 for the corresponding. period of
last year.
Emperor William is still at Gastein, and
Is represented as IN good condition mentally
and physically.
The Iowa tax assessments, as equalized,
show net increase over last year, So, OOO,-
The weekly signal service bulletin saws
that the weather during the past week has
been uufaVOrable to crops in many sections.
From Alabama eastward cotton Is suffering
| from the drouth. Dry and hot weather in
the corn belt has affected this crop unfavor-
ably. In the northwest, the weather has
been favorable and harvesting Is in progress
as far north as the fOrty-seventh parallel
The tone OF the Mexican press foreshad-
OWs Intervention by MeyicO to overthrow the
dictatorship assumed by President Barillas
in Guatemala.
Captain Gilbert Knapp, founder of the city
of Racine, Wisconsin, has died at that place
IN his elghty-ninth year.
A state Of terror prevails in the interior of
Hardin county, Illinois, where a Kuklux
band Is carrying things with a high hand
Many persons have been notified to leave
the county. public meeting has been
called to devise means of restoring tranquil
Ity and the supremacy of the law.
The assessed value of Kansas taxables for
the current year is S3lO,596, CSC, an increase
of So, 473,363 over last year.
The exodus of farmers and peasants from
central Russia to western Siberia threatens
to result in an agricultural crisis. The
Russian government may take steps to check
the migration.
General Boulanger and NJ. Ferry did not
fight. The fiery soldier, however, insists
that the duel shall take place unless NJ
Ferry apologies for his Epinal speech.
The trial of Alfred Mccoy at Portsmouth,
Ohio. for the murder ID DR. Mort hmm Ar1aH
in a verdict of guilty of murder in the second
degree. The jury was out three days.
The loss by high water at Augusta. Georgia,
is estimated at 100000. The crops IN the
Shenandoah valley are almost entirely des-
troyed.
jerome J.. Hill, of New York has been re-
moved as executor of the estate of William
90 of securities. Proceedings have been
taken TO recover the securities from the
brokers with whom they were pledged by
Hill as collateral to secure margins on stock
deals.
AT Bridgeport, Connecticut, George
WrelStein shot his wife fatally in "a fit of
Jealousy and then committed suicide.
James NJ. Gamble, of Chicago. has brought
the Chamber of Commerce building at
| IOle 10 Ohio for 100000.
Sir Otto Trevelyau, who stood in the
! Gladstone interest, has been returned TO
lllLl-siLLlc44l from DL4l4GMdLCT. Inc returns
show a Handsome gain for the GladstOneans,
and the result is regarded as a severe blow
TO the government.
Details of the Kentucky election are
gradually coming to hand. At Manchester,
| IN Clay county. SIX men were killed and
large number wounded. The arguments
used were reyolvers and bOWie-kuives.
| Complete returns from the state Will doubt
| less show a long list of fatalities.
The British authorities are keeping a
sharp lookout for dynamiters and tail-twis-
/ tiers from American. A rigid search of the
/ baggage of oil passengers arriving at
| Queenstown Is being made.
John BeaI, thirteen years old, who has
/ been in Jail at Eaton, Ohio, several weeks
/ for the murder of his mother, has confessed
| the or me The lad claimed at the time of
| the tragedy that his mother had killed by
/ tramps.
! The French minister of foreign affairs has
| Issued a circular regarding the Egyptian
| convention, which is pitched in a yeIy mild
/ key. NJ. Ferry names the two chief objec-
| tions to the treaty, cOmmends England for
/ the spirit of Cancellation she manifested
after its rejection, and expresses the belief
/ that If negotiations are renewed the problem
/ viii be found easy of solution. Finally. he
| asserts that France only desires such
| settlement as will be agreeable to all the
powers. 1t Is now in order for Russia TO be
/ heard from.